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Coffee House Shots

LIVE: Who won conference season? | with Scarlett Maguire

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/10/2026

Does Britain still have free speech? | with Jonathan Sumption & Kellie-Jay Keen

Will John Healey tax the banks?

Does Burnham have a foreign policy?

Ed Davey sees off a coup

Where are all the ‘Waitrose women’?

Russian interference: what really happened with Brexit

LIVE: Why aren't Britain's young people working? | with Laura Trott

Is Polanski finished? – Labour crushes Green challenge in North London

What makes a great politician? | Thérèse Coffey & Michael Gove

REACTION: Kemi’s conference speech – has she found ‘the right way’?

A bonfire of regulations & Kemi's iron dome

LIVE: Antisemitism, Man City & abolishing the Triple Lock

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 04/10/2026

Can Kemi win the battle for the right?

Can the Greens survive Burnham?

Suella Braverman on imposter syndrome, 'breaking up' with the Tories and why she’ll never go back

EXCLUSIVE: work or face benefits ban, Kemi tells under-25s

Can Andy keep up with his promises?

Hope again: do you buy Burnham's big pitch?

Can Labour really reindustrialise Britain?

Immigration, Europe and tax: the questions Burnham is avoiding | LIVE

Labour conference day 1 – what's the mood in the bar?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 27/09/2026

'The return of the prodigal son'? – Labour conference lookahead | with Jonathan Ashworth

Is the AI dream over for Andy?

Can Kemi hoover up votes with benefits reform?

Chagos U-turn: has Burnham seen sense?

Will Trump give Burnham the time of day?

What's the mood at Lib Dem conference?

Calum Miller on growth, Burnham & closer EU defence ties

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 20/09/2026

Is Burnham ready to talk about war?

Have women ever had it so good? | with Julie Bindel & Miriam Cates

Have we found Reform's achilles heel? – with Luke Tryl

How bad is the economy, Healey?

The battle for (rural) Britain

Reform's £72m donation – how will they spend it?

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 13/09/2026

Holy Smoke: Catholic Burnham barred – should the law change?

Laura Trott: 'Labour are kowtowing to the unions'

Assisted dying dead – for now

Assisted dying is back: what does Burnham think?

The most powerful woman in Britain

Burnham’s BIG blunder

Why Ed Miliband is taking on Israel

‘Andy Burnham did the Tories a huge favour’ | Sir Malcolm Rifkind

Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 06/09/2026

LIVE | Reform conference round-up – everything you need to know

Reform in crisis after Channel 4 sting

Chris Philp: mass immigration is making Britain ‘ungovernable’

Burnham's 'new politics' is much the same as the old

Politics returns: Tories reshuffle & Starmer slopes off

Reality Check: who's left to tax?

How to write about Farage

Is Burnham ready for the world stage?

Al Carns: we are failing Northern Ireland veterans – and why I quit government

Shadow cabinet reshuffle: what to expect | with Lord Goodman

Is Reform right to prioritise ‘British-born’ citizens?

Burnham gifts missile blueprints to Zelenskyy

Reviewing Andy's report card | with Baroness Debbonaire

Does anyone in Burnham’s government understand economics?

Zia vs Shippers – and Sue Gray breaks her silence

Has the Green civil war finally begun?

Reform suspends Tim Montgomerie after Spectator interview

EXCLUSIVE | 'Zia needs to be a team player' – Tim Montgomerie

One year of Polanski: more continuity than change?

Farage beats the bin! – Clacton results unpacked

‘This is not a war!’ – why politicians are turning on the media | with Gabriel Pogrund

Andy's migration muddle & can he fix the High Street?

Clacton by-election: what you need to know

What does Lowe actually want from Farage?

'The Tories remain the existential threat to Labour' – interview with Jonathan Ashworth

Can Burnham make the tough calls on pensions & social care?

Kemi and the Crewkerne debacle

Why Burnham's borrowing bonanza won't work

Burnham buckles on early prisoner release

Reform's plan to stop the small boats – the Royal Navy